Please change [ glob ] not to find hidden files or directories so that it won't fail for Emacs users

[jasonspiro4@…]

When I do [ glob *.cpp ], Boost.Build¹ finds all *.cpp files. Sadly, this includes Emacs lockfiles². Emacs stores these files in the same directory as my source files, but they are dotfiles (Unix hidden files) whose names start with dot-pound: .#main.cpp for example.

I do not want glob to find those files, and I assume that most programmers think likewise.³ Please change glob so that it does not find files or directories whose name starts with a dot.

Cheers, --Jason (jasonspiro4@gmail.com)

¹ The CMake software build system has the same problem. I told CMake too: ​http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=7487

² ​http://tekman.livejournal.com/79598.html

³ I can only think of one case where programmers *do* need to think about dotfiles: C and C++ programmers who use GNU Libtool, in the cases where they need to look inside the hidden directories that Libtool creates. You can read more about these hidden directories at ​http://makepp.sourceforge.net/1.40.1/makepp_scanning.html#libtool. But I think it would be rare for anyone to use glob to try to find things inside Libtool hidden directories. They probably only want a few libraries from inside there, not dozens of files like I assume most glob users would want. So they are much more likely to specify the individual libraries they want by typing their full filenames.